As the great wheel of history turns back towards BRTs, the LNP is ostentatiously keen extending the “Metro” to Capalaba, which is a good thing.
Unfortunately there is zero acknowledgement by anyone that the Eastern Busway was a living, breathing possibility before being abandoned by the State government.
Who has a good summary (with some source material) about how the Eastern Busway got killed, under which Premier, and who killed it?
I’m interested because I can see a distinct possibility that politicians will “vague” their way through three years of consultation before coming up with something absolutely sub-par. Unless we’re really well equipped and know how it got killed last time, we’ll end up with a dud project and lose the chance to do something real.
(full transparency - my own preference would be 100% bus priority/right of way via as much off-road busway as is easy, and as much on-road BRT as needed, but this is genuinely about understanding how “we” lost the last round)